Creating the Future of Work

Imaginaries in an Era of Digitalization

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This timely book explores the ways in which the future of work and associated digital technologies are imagined in contemporary society. Drawing on a wealth of original research, the book features detailed case studies that link broad sociological concepts to everyday practice.Building on the view that ideas about the future matter, the authors examine four imaginaries, namely work as rational, work as human-machine collaboration, work as freedom and work as self-improvement. They discuss how these imaginaries of work and technology risk shaping unwanted futures, and outline different scenarios that reflect an ideal future working world.Creating the Future of Work is an indispensable resource for academics and students of business and management, organisation studies, employment relations, and the sociology of work and organisations. Researchers, policymakers and business professionals interested in creating a positive working environment and in deploying constructive technology will also find this book to be of great importance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-03-18
Mått:138 x 216 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035324477

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Anette Hallin, Professor of Business Administration, Department of Business and Mathematics, Christoffer Andersson, Lucia Crevani, Professor of Business Administration, Department of Business and Mathematics, Caroline Ingvarsson, Chris Ivory, Inti Lammi, Eva Lindell and Anna Uhlin, Associate Senior Lecturer of Industrial Economics and Organization, Department of Business and Mathematics, Mälardalen University, Sweden

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‘A seminal and groundbreaking study, Creating the Future of Work: Imaginaries in an Era of Digitalization is co-authored by the team of: Anette Hallin, Christoffer Andersson, Lucia Crevani, Caroline Ingvarsson, Chris Ivory, Inti Lammi, Eva Lindell and Anna Uhlin (Malardalen University, Sweden). Informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, exceptionally well organized and thoroughly “reader friendly” in presentation, unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and college/university library collections.’

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsPreface1 Imaginaries and the study of the future 2 Work and imaginaries of rationality 3 Work and imaginaries of collaboration between humans and machines 4 Work and imaginaries of freedom 5 Work and imaginaries of self-improvement 6 The politics of imaginaries Index